George Suter
On the 7th of May 2009, Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of cannabis. This was just a routine warrant, something they had done countless times. What was meant to be an ordinary procedure turned into three of New Zealand’s darkest days and ended with one police officer dead, two officers critically injured and a member of the public fighting for his life. In some fifty hours Jan Molenaar made a permanent and devastating imprint upon the national psyche of New Zealand as he changed the lives of individuals, families, a police community, and a city. The siege was one of the worst and unexpected cases of violence both Napier and New Zealand had witnessed and it was all the more shocking because of its ordinary suburban backdrop.
Sheridan
Safe House is the story of a struggle for survival in an unfamiliar and threatening world, based on the true life experience of a woman in the early days of the witness protection programme in New Zealand. TV Movie
Jim
Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused by forced adoptions inflicted on unwed and teenage mothers in 1950s and 60s Aotearoa
Transportation Secretary
Com a explosão de um surto de gripe aviária, a Dra. Iris Varnack vai começar uma corrida contra o tempo para tentar erradicar esse vírus mortal, que pode infectar os humanos, antes que seja tarde demais.
Red Skelton
MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.
John Wakefield
Her Majesty is a coming-of-age film about a young girl who realizes her lifelong dream when Queen Elizabeth II comes to visit her small hometown.
James McCaffery
Menina de 14 anos que adora cavalos de corrida obtém o direito de treinar com um cavalo tido como pangaré pelo dono, mas que, em suas mãos, revela-se bom de corrida.
Happy Larry
Two quirky bush critters cut to the chase in a roadkill race around New Zealand. The game is fast, the stakes are high, the prize is a juicy dead possum.
Karl Stead
Baseado no relato autobiográfico de Janet Frame, o filme conta a história de uma ruiva gorducha e tímida que é diagnosticada como esquizofrênica e passa oito anos sendo tratada com eletrochoques em um sanatório, para depois se tornar uma das mais aclamadas escritoras da Nova Zelândia. Por pouco não submetida a uma lobotomia, é salva pelo fato de seu livro de contros “The Lagoon and Other Stories”, receber um importante prêmio literário.
